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~--"~ bP4NISI-1 AND PORTUGUESE PARERS. EXTRAOIdDIi4ARY GAZETTE OF GOVERNMENT Sormix, Aram 14.—The (alliciau patriot's have ! , tnt deputatton to the Supreme Central Junta to ii:f.rrn them, that , they have re-taken the,iown of with 'a number of prisoners, and a large quan- Lily of warlike stores and' money.: l'he 111 u, (lois De La Romano reports, that he has taken Villatratica by assault, and that the best regi ment in the French service surrendered to him as pri soners of war. • 'ToitTosA, „Amer. .—To judge by appearance, the FrenCh intend to leave Barcelona, and our troops Lwe put thethselves in motion from Tarragon to,oe copy Vdlafranca. We have here the division of the Marquis of Lazan, Commanded by Gen. Blake) from (his part, of Arragon the French are marching to Siragosia. God , send.that-they may never return. S a*Ltd.a, Ara t 4,---The Supreme Central Junta ht ink; convinced that the French employ" all irriagin 4b:e artifices in order to accomplish the execution of ucir iniquitous plans of nsurration, has been pleased to ordain, among other measures of preCautTon, odolited in order to counterael them, that at the Se cretary's Office of the different public departments, thl memorials shall be admitted from persons com ing from any part of the country which is occupied `by the 'French, without their producing a certificate from the Board of Public Welfare, attesting their good condo& , BATTLE OF MEDELLIN. The following is the official report of the battle of Niedollin, which the Captain-General, Don Grego rio de 1a Cuesta, has transmitted to the Supreme .Central Ju''ta • ." After, by the retrograde movement drily army, had Covered the juation of, the division of Ando lusta, commanded by the Duke of Albuquerque, I received intelligence that , the enemy had detached part of his troops from Miadajac to Merida and Me. dellin, and immediately resolved to otter him battle itt the first convenient place where I should come up ;with hin - ) I marched accordingly the 27th of last "Anal) ; and baying leariled in the morning of the , 2 8 1 1 ) , t h at enemy concentrated his forces in Me dellin, f marched thither with the divisions of my army, and having formed them in columns, as I ap proached the,place I arranged my plan of attack. " The enemy's array, which consisted , -of about '3OOO Eloise and 20,000 loot, was drawn up in front Or Medellin ; his infantry was formed in large close columns, the flanks of which were covered by the cavalry, and their frent. by six batteries, which kept up a tretricodtins fire on our infantry,. while it was advancing to the attack in the Most gallitit style. I sent ortlera to the Generals, who commanded the gitterent cohituos,, direaing some of them to deploy, -and others to charge with the .baYonet, its order . to render themselves tints:era-of the enemy's bat " terms,' The troops under my conimand performed ',e‘ery mevement with ,that ',regularity, intrepidity, 1:41t1 order, which inspired with certain hopes of , seeeess. My left advanced with the utmost ga1.14/tity . 1 4/t i t y within pktol-shot of the first battery of the eoenry, and carried it with fixed bayonets, when a flits Won he enemy's horse, supported by a thvlsieo equally strorg, charged to retake it. The ;ntainry advanced undismayed to the attack, when the regiment, of cavalry of Almania, and Infante, • 'and two squadrons of the Imperial Chasseurs of ,Toledo, which were ordered to charge the etemy, instead of executing this (rider at fall gallop, ...rew 'icy left into. disorder; my right eominued in the Meat) dine the aetion with unabated t igionr ; but the enemy being unable - to direct his whole force , al.:; . niost those troops,atid the centre, I ordered the to, retreat. Our less has been severe. The, number of ()dicers killed, wounded, and taken prisohers, -amounts to 170 ; the loss of rank and file has. not yet been ascertained, but it is very considerable. " With the exception of are regimenti above , named, Whose cowardly conduct occasioned our loss, the rest of the army fought with the utmost in trepidity and valour, and deserved a better fate. ",Llead-Qoarters, Monasterio, April 7, log." CAnit, Aram 5.7-D. Ramon de Loyzaga has received the following intelligence brought by the S t latilsh ..which yesterday arrived in this port : ‘, Lettt.rs have been received from IS . lexteo, which state it as a • certain fait, that the. noted General' Savary, who so many ,times deceived our beloved King Ferdinand, in ordei to decoy him to Bayonne, having bees sent to Mexico, which he entered by the province ofil'exa, and receenized by ,a soldier, was arrested, and is now - a' prisoner in M e xico, The,instrutlions which were found about liitn will probably lead to-The discovery of 'some traiterotts partizans of the French in that past of Spanish America. It appears "by to Proclamation addressed by the Supretne Central Junta to the inhabitants of Seville, that:Vic,- battle of Medellin the 'French head qe ere established in Merida,- froru Whenci• fladjoi to %urrender ; 'but having ail answer which becomes if loyal peoßle, swab i,itnies only have advanced ita that part of Andalusia to rob and sack the . places ,which they entered, according to their enstom. In the mean !line Don Gregorto de la Criesta, after having re viewed his troops established his head-quarters in Monasterio, in order to deiced to the last emremity il.e fortified points of Sierra Morena, whither ttoops, niillery and ammunition, are sent from all quarters, e ) e nable that General to resume Offensive opera-. 1;01 , 4, The troops who are entrusted with the di. fence of the important:post of Puerto del Rey 'are t:,.otarnanderl by Maj6r-General Den Francisco Ve.. .gas, an Officer of distinguished abilities and va-. lour, whO ael under .the orders of General Cuesta, appointed by the Supreme Central Junta Lemtnander in Chief of both armies. 4. LiSnuN, •APillt. last accounts from the neighboerhood of Oporto inform us et the death of th e itetlch General Loison, A LTA SI, A:PAH...Se- 7 014r news from Cato. o;]ia .11-c by 1111, 1;9,1' qui) , favourable. 'l‘he French Imre refired (roll) Tarragona, Reves, and Salon, and tin ba n :k as fur as Barcelona. ,Lrfisoz, 11ettlt. S.—General Wellesley arrived Lert, Li! the 22d, with two regimeots of cavalry and ne regiment of infantry: . He was introdiAceti 4 Cv1.41 cut Wedtlesday 4 and thew have bee,ta tioirs -ever since 1:.3 arrkal. The..-troops lave all marched up the country to join the others ; the whole of them are proc.eeding towards Oporto by forced .marches, and an engagement N daily expect ed. I believe their head .quarters are at, present at Leiria. .It is generally thought, that the French in that quarter must surrender. They have no com munication with their main body, and are not above 10,000 strong, We have about 17,000 English, and as many. Portuguese: ,The French are greatly distressed for provisions, and, several of their forag , ing parties have been cut Off. In the South they seem to be doing nothing, and upon.the whole we think every thing is going on well. The transports which were employed bailed yesterday for England for more troops, and as 'many merchant ships as were ready took advantage of the convoy. The transports with stores, provisions, &v. &c. have sailed . for that part of the coast. where they may be able to , give ass from month "I'r - )troops advancing to Oporto. rem- Yesterday the guns fired, and we had illumina tiOns in consequence of information that the whOle. of the Rochefort squadron had been destroyed.. ELVA, 'APRII, 2 1 .---The French entered Alcan tara and killed 2 t persons, hilt have retired; and joined General Vidor at Merida. Nothing partieti lar has taken place. The Spaniards under Cuestit are aboUt 36,000 men, and are daily receiving cone siderable reinforcements. Ltsnot , r, Aran. the 21, , d instant an Eng lish frigate arrived in ail,: place, having Gen. Wel lesley on board. The people of Portugal rejoice to see again in their country the conqueror of Roleia and Vimeira, who 7s pertedly acquainted with the Portuguese territory and customs. The inhabitants of Lisbon expressed their joy by a general illumina- tion in the evenings of the 23c1 and :34th. PROCLAMATION or FIELD-MARSHAL BERE)FORD. " Whereas Marshal , Soult (who styles himself Governor of Portugal), although he is perfealy aware of the critical situation in which he has placed himself, but which he endeavours to conceal from the unfortunate troops whoM he =daces to the boundless ambition of a tyrant, circulates false re ports and intelligence of the near arrival of Buona parte at the head of a French army of 80,000 men, in order to deceive the public, with regard to the dangers by which he is threatened. Marshal Beres ford, in order to undeceive the people of the North of Portugal, and the French army, and convince them of the falsehood of the above reports, thinks it right to 'publish. the following intercepted letter written to Marshal Soult by General kellertnan, Who says that he commands the French force in _Upp e r Spain ; and when it is ascertained that a General publishes falsehoods in one case, his army and the public at large will know how to appreciate his'accounts on. other occasions. MarShal 'Souk. is perfealy aware of the dangers of his Situation, but endeavours to conceal' them from his troops; and the couriers, of whose arrival he boasts, did probably arrivefrom 'some part of the position of his corps, two or three leagues distant: ,They could not at least come either from France orSpain,. his com munication with those countries ,being entirely in tercepted. - LETTER i , UOM CiENERAL KELLERMAN:. Valladolid; March:3 I. Stn---His Imperial Majesty .hatiug ordered the Duke of Istria to join him, has entrusted me with the command of the French trues in Upper Spain. I received the'letterw'which you wrote to 'him from Berlin. I sent copies thereof this Imperial Majesty and. the Prince of Neitfchatet, and transmitted the letter which was addressed to liis kighoess. Mar shal Bessieres set out 'Or Germany on.the 16th inst. and the IMperial Guard, with every person belong ing to the Imperial household, On the.224th, war against Austria was declared, but it is not yet known whether the Emperor - will proceed to the Inn or Tagliamento. My posh ion in Spain is rather criti cal, but I occupy the plain country with a consider able body of horse, . although I acts destitute of, in fantry. lam watching the movements of the 'army . of Asturias and of the troops of Romano, who ob strut.t our communication, with the provinces tin.) , • Occupy. lam not able to do what I could wish, but send strong reconnoitering parties to - Bragaeza and Miranda,• and do all 1 em to keep the people, between this place. and Madrid in order, whom I • know to be disatfedied. Your brother has arrived here, but I do tint see how' he will be abre to. rejoin as he Wishes. The war in 'Germany, produqed by the intrigues and gold of England; cannot but be.at tended with the most dreadful eetisequences to us, and must for the present render our situation ex tremely critical. You cannot expeCt any reinforce- Mentg unless the. Puke of Elchingen should be able tip' send you some, of which .1 cannot judge, as I have not the least communication with him, and all Gallicia is in a siateOf insurrection. I send yoU this letter by a person in Whom 1 place, much confide.hcc, • and who is worthy of yours,' &c. P. 8. Turkey has made peace with England ; there are inSUT/tet ions in wort-part of. Ger many.! • " Soldiers wtto compose the French arms, such are the reports which vont. Commander. spreads among you, and such is the true intelligence which the French Generals endeavour to conceal from the people w ho. are So Unfortunate as to .be subjected to , their power. , • Headiggarters, Tomar, the tloth April, 1809. (Siglicti) " W, C. BEIM:WORD, " Mar3hal and COMllli.toder in Chief." LISBON, ApaiL zs. EXTRACT Op A LETTER FROM HRIGAIMHR FRANCISCO, DA SILVHIRA, DATED AMARANTH, APRIL 2. " For several thys past there have been skit. mishes between the advanced guards. I had re celved notice • that a considerable body of the ene my's cavalry were on their march by "Guemaraco, to take the .bridge of Amarante, 'and CIU cavity re treat. I had, I.tv.vever, tune to gain the said bridge, and intrench myself on the other sine of the la.' mega, by this means frustrating their designs. I have been attacked on the 17th ) pith, 19th, gOlh, and like,Wise on the 2 tat, with great tome, but I have always been able to repulse the enemy with considerable loss, and preserve. my position. God preserve ) , &c. (Signed) FRANCI66 PA SaVIHRA„" Orders have been sent to - CoitutYrot to prep r. QO,OOO rations of forage for 140 h Domes an d 500 artillery "wiles. Sill. hundred English be! ont from Leitio, for Coimbra, and the nest day 1116 wholo English army took the same road. It is hoped that by the 26th or 27th they will have entered that city. Colonel Trant, the Governor, of Coimbra, is post ed with the troops under his command on the Vougo : his advanced guard occupies the other bank of that river on the road to Oporto, and has already entered Albergaria. ToaTnsh, APRIL to—The French, according to all appearances, intend to abandon Barcelona, and the troops'of their van-guard are taking the dire&ion of Monada, on the road to Gerona and Visch.— PersOns who have arrived from that wretched city say, that they are carrying away all the cannon from Monzaich, and destroying every thing they can, be cause they intend 'to fly. Our tro o ps, w ill l eave Tar ragona to occupy Villa Franca. The division of the Marquis de 'Lazan, Commanded by General Bloke, is in this city. The French are marching through this part of Arragonfor Saragossa. VALENTIA, APRIL 4.—We know that the town of Maquinenia, though it has been attacked five times by the enemy, has repulsed them completely with great loSsp. notwithstanding the small number of its garrison. Don Roman Betes, and Don Antonia Chamechen, the Governor and the principal Magistrate, Alcaide Mor, of Morella, inform us, by a letter. dated March :4 ‘ 5, that the enemy evacuated that town at two ill the afternoon of that day, and retreated upon Arragon. MAILS. AARIVfD-2.Cottenburgli, t Heligoland, 2 Lisbon, 3 Dub• z Waterford. DUA-1 Gottenburgb, :VIA Wa terford. P1L1613 OF S'COCKS • -rifis DAY AT TWl4l,Vit ,O'CLOCK• Consols . .681 Red. Ann. ,67,1:1 omnitim f l pr, THE SUN. 1101,11/4 QUIS DICIIIX IALStIII4 AULMIAT? LONDON, MONDAY, MAY 15, 180 g. We have this day continued our Extraas from the German and Dutch Papers, which arrived on Saturday. The intelligence they contain tends in a great degree to relieve us from the apprehension which the first account of the French successes occasioned. The Archduke CiIARLES, instead of having fled " to the mountains of Bohemia" for shelter, was on the 28th between Cham and StoWang, where his army had ,been reinforced by the Corps under the command of Generals BELLEGARDE and KLENAU, and by those commanded by Generals VINCENT and KINMAYER. 'rho Archduke's Army, thus reinfoiced,' consists, it is said, `of 100,000 men. This account is, we tear, very considerably exaggerated, but there can be no doubt that he is at the head of a very formidable army. In Italy the Austrians have been decidedly success . - They may like the French, have exaggerated their success, but a reference to .the map will show that the French must have been defeated. We trust that the French accounts of the expulsion of the Au strians front the Tyrol are unfounded ; Indeed we can hardly suppose it possible that an AuStrian army could be driven out of such a country as the Tyrol in so short a time. Sine writing the above, we have received Ger man Papers to the 6th inst. 1 They contain the Au strian Bulletins Ind details of the operations in Ba varia. We are prevented by the want of room from offering any comments upon.thein. SEVENTH, titlTki, AND NINTH OFFICI Ain MAN I(EPQILIS. LETTER FROM THE EMPEROR VRANCLS TO MARSHAL COLLOR*DO. " DEAR FIELD-MARSHAL, • " Owing to the rapid movetnents of the Army, and accumulated business, no Official Report has ap peared for several days. I transmit you a concise ex tract of Abe Reports sent me, in order that you may • publish them. " FRANCIS." " Scharding, April 22, 1809." SEVENTH OFFICIAL REPORT. " After passing the Iser, •his Imperial Highness the Generalissimo, with the 3d, 4th, and sth corps of the army, and the Ist corps of the reserve, broke up against the Danube, in the diredien to Keldlieitu and Ratisbon .The enemy weredraWn up near Ratisbon Agreeable .to the declaration of prisoners of war, the *Emperor NAPOLEON reached the army on the toth inst. The Generalissimo has 'made a forced march from the Iser to beyond the Labar, and advancedon the IA through Eclnohl, Rotenburgh, cloister. rock. The encuay encountered him, and a very brisk detion took pidce. The Generalienissio praises the bravery of the troops. ...Our loss is consider. able s several regiments have lost all their Staff, Officers, Pield.Marshal . Lientenant LUSIGNAN— the Princes Loots and Matutica, of Lichtenstein, are wounded. The Generalissimo kept the army in order of battle the next day to follow theMove wins of the .enemy. We have no further dotaili about this affair. The lois in killed, wounded, and prisoners . , is not yet known, as the multiplicity of business prevented hii Imperial Highness from making circumstantial reports On the field of. battle' (off Hansen) to hi s Majesty.. On the with Itatisbon capitulated.' On the wine day the, sth corps of, the army was also smartly attacked, .near filegenburgh, upon The Atcliduke Ltuwzs repented in corutuoP, with Field. Marshal Lieut. trouitt' against the lier, to' co' or Landshot : both corps are united. On the 210, Marshal DAvoosr attacked the 4th corps 'of the army, near Eckmuhl ; a r very severe aetion took place which lasted for 12 hours. On the 2td the second Corps of the Army retreated by Ratisbon, and combined with.the main Army. The head-quar ters of Generalissimo the Archduke CiltalLSO Weft on the 21st near Eglofsheim." EIGHTH OFFICIAL REPOIItT. Tranquilizir4 'news has been received from the sth and Gth corps of the army as well as the 2d. Al, the three carps stand united near Old Oeling. Tl.c defile near I.an dsh ut, where several waggons obstruct ed the road while the advancing enemy was brave!! opposed, has rendered the loss of some artillery red several waggons unavoidable. By official report• the loss of men is not considerable; only ono slot' of the Regiment of Benjaysk's Infantry, which was obliged to pass the bridge of the Iser, already in flames, suffered severely. These three united corps will follow the movements of the mail x111;4 under the command of the derteralitshno. By the most recent accounts the oerieralissitea ..4 head-quarters still continued at Eglofbliarn, Oil 29d, and the enemy in their position. The SeCCitia corps bad etieded a junBion on :he Ilatisbon rosy with the 3d and 4th corps of reserve, and a generfl attack on the enemy was resolved on the lA. the 22d, at noon, the cannon were rotting violently in that part, and probably the murderous tight Continues. The combat is . condeaed with uncom mon animosity. Every Man feels the sublime ousts for which he fights. We have not yet any defini tive acconnts. The Erhperor's Court :is at Scheer ding. While the main army kept adVanclng song the Danube, and the corps near Old Oeling, stands reedy either for offensive operations, or to defend the ver Inn. His Majesty considering the' probability of a corps of the enemy threatening the frontiers 'Of the hereditary dominions, thought it proper to order out' the Militia of Lower Austria, Saltzburgi and that of Inner Austria. The Militia of tipper Auso . ,trig has been under arms since the armies 4# 4 vanced, partly on the Inn, and partly to invest tho fortress of Obuhaus. N. B. The Ninth Report is the same as has a 1• ready been published from the Supplement ElVe ordinary to the Official Gazette of Prague. SHORES OP Tli EMI, MAY 6 French ac• counts published in Germany are full of eXagg era4 The Vienna Court Gazettes, which have been published down to the R3d, .shew that the misfortune of the 'Austrians is far from being so ex tensive and.complete as they wish to state. By prjvato letters via Berlin from Vienna, the Archduke CHARLES has again repUlted the enemy'. ten leaguer, on the 28th and nth ult. and Generoi HILLER, who now commands the tith and Gth carpi of the armies, has also obtained considerable ad- vantages. In Poland the Austriani occupy Warsaw, sod Italy the Archduke JOHN hat defeated tha tr epc "' with the loss of go pieces o f cannon, 3 m o ss . $OO . O men killed, and 10,000 wounded. The Austrian army, in this adtion, which to ( * place on the 15th and 16th ult. are said to have them• selves lost 10,00 Q mtn in killed, wounded, attld prisobers. An eminent house has re ce i ve d a l e tter fro `' m m enna via Berlin, stating that the Archduke 1. 1 : 1 / D is displaced from his command in the army, and that the Archduke CHARL26, reinforced by 70,0 0011 / 3 , n. garians, had defeated the F renc h i n a frola battle! with the lois of 60,000 men in killed, vvoundeclo and prisoners. We anxiously wish this news may be true. The Banae Citoyeanivand the ilfar/borough 113 " arrived at Falmouth from Lisbon. Sir A. Wu" gs.. ' LIM had taken the command of the army. and Baas tuNtittoing towards doitubrit. We have inade fi"n us extras from the Portuguese Papers, which and °: rived to the anal nit. General .11eansfoRD 'published an intercepted letter from General LFRMAN to Marshal Swam; it affords deci sive , proof of the critical state. of the French in road s and in the North of Spain. xciaa l l ' ee s h The Majesty's h. C se ey se l h o t i n apt s n , sailed iron! D St. Helena the loth March with those Ships ali 4 IFl l ideb o . u v e ia / a i r l a ; f a orv i dh;ht ~sailed the Thais Frigate, also the iilerander from at Bornb.4), which plate she lett the 4th January Diana parted company the 0 4th April--.-ttir Ships above mentioned arrived off Weyrnoutli I ` l ' lath instant. The Phtenix, Tigris, 'Surat Cattle, 11 ,„ 1 fed, Preston, and a Botany Bay Ship, hod tat'i from St. Helena an the ist March; under coliv °) " his Majesty's Ship Grargut. The Tigris . (one of those ships which s ailed Or" Sr. Helena the first of March) had puled Gornto" in a gals and ariived off Portland ilia 13th inatalit• 5 ALI" .Yesterday morning his Ma . 3Esir, Printeso CAU . th COSTA, and SoPiltA, accompaoied by fAidY „ s i c from„vi 11: LINK WALDEGJIANS, and General GavvNigei tO St. George's Chapel, and heatd a Scrilio) read.- t i ed by the lieu. Dr. HALLAg j em,l pi t er w i iid:: tett. • ed to the Palact.